That friend a great man's ruin strongly checks, who rails into his belief all his defects.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
Suspicion is not less an enemy to virtue than to happiness; he that is already corrupt is naturally suspicious, and he that becomes suspicious will quickly be corrupt.
In every tyrant's heart there springs in the end this poison, that he cannot trust a friend.
It may be the part of a friend to rebuke a friend's folly.
My friend is he who will tell me my faults in private.
He who has felt his own ruin will not imagine the case of any to be hopeless; nor will he think them too fallen to be worthy his regard.
Suspicion is the cancer of friendship.
Every man, however wise, needs the advice of some sagacious friend in the affairs of life.
A man of genius has been seldom ruined but by himself.
Happy the man when he has not the defects of his qualities.
A true friend is one who overlooks your failures and tolerates your success!